Cathy Guisewite Quotes
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I've sung other people's music all my life.
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'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
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Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
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I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.
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There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
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The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
